Nashville’s singer/songwriter Amy Speace has been heralded by Rolling Stone, Billboard Magazine and The New York Times and featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” She was discovered by Judy Collins while living in New York City and cutting her teeth in the folk clubs of lower Manhattan. Collins signed Amy immediately upon seeing her to Wildflower Records in 2006 and put out two of Amy’s first records. In 2009, Amy moved to Nashville, TN and began working with Thirty Tigers record label, releasing a more critically-acclaimed album every few years. In 2020, her song “Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne” was the winner of the Americana Music Association (UK) International Song of the Year. Her newest record, “The American Dream,” is out October 18 th and proves to be her best record yet. Her records have been widely critically praised and have reached #1 on the Folk Music Charts. As well, 2013’s “How To Sleep in a Stormy Boat” was named as one of the Top 100 Records of the Last Century by Performing Songwriter Magazine. As an essayist and poet, she has been published by The New York Times, Salon.com, Performing Songwriter, No Depression, Working Mother, 2 River Review and Euonia. She has taught songwriting and stage performance for twenty years at various festivals and songwriting camps, as well as teaching Master Classes at Berklee College of Music. In 2024, she published, To The Performer: A Singer-Songwriter’s Handbook, based on her classes. She graduated Magna cum laude from Amherst College. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Naslund-Mann School of Writing at Spalding University.